Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Anjana Ahuja highlights the risks which result from quackery treating theories about an “immunity debt” as a reason to expose children to…
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Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Heather Scoffield examines the lessons we should be learning from the COVID-19 pandemic if it hadn’t been disappeared down the memory hole. And…
Thursday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Maggie O’Neill discusses how new research is confirming the importance of avoiding COVID reinfections. And Edward Keenan asks what it will take…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Winnie Byanyima discusses the importance of cooperation and coordination in responding to a pandemic. But Michael Lee contrasts the consistent message from…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Manina Etter et al. study the causes of neurological damages arising out of COVID-19. And Roni Caryn Rabin reports on the recent…
Friday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Umair Haque theorizes that the relatively benign outcome of the U.S.’ recent election reflects a public that’s finally rejecting Trumpism. But Krystal…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Lara Herrero discusses how infection with COVID-19 can leave people more vulnerable to all kinds of other diseases. And the Canadian Press reports…
Wednesday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Erik Swain discusses new research showing that even “mild” cases of COVID-19 produce massively increased risks of death from cardiovascular issues. And Charlie…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – David Axe reports on the spread of a new COVID-19 subvariant which pairs increased transmissibility with resistance to antibody therapies. And Andrew Gregory…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Ed Yong offers an important look at what long COVID’s “brain fog” means for the people suffering from it, while Peter Thurley…
On jurisdictional issues
Shorter Jason Kenney: For all my Ottawa-bashing bluster, even I have to admit it’s asinine to pretend provincial laws can nullify the existence of federal powers. Shorter Scott Moe: The…
Monday Evening Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – CBS reports on the Walk to Remember intended to highlight the continued need for long COVID supports. And Elizabeth Thompson reports on the…
Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sasha Warren reports on new research showing that people suffering from long COVID may not be fully clearing the coronavirus from their systems…
Best Tool to Fight Crime is Welfare
The best way to fight crime is to take away motivation to commit crime. It’s been proven time and time again that severe punishments don’t deter crime, so how can…
Bad Driver or Hate Crime? RCMP says “impatient”
" was shouting stuff out. He was being racist, using some racial slurs," said Garrett Dan. "We have a whole bunch of witnesses to what happened to my brothers." Please…
Plague Update: BoJo Caught Lying To Parliament, Again
https://t.co/s05SEJNIvH — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) May 23, 2022 This is not Boris Johnson’s first rodeo. His party excused him before, will they again protect him and MET police too?…
Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Sheryl Gay Stoberg discusses how concerns about pharmaceutical profiteering and a lack of access in the developing world are developing for COVID-19 treatments…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Sam Gindin discusses the need to push back against the narrative that inflation caused by supply chain disruptions and corporate greed will…
On negative reinforcement
While there have been some aspects of the Saskatchewan NDP’s post-election review (PDF) which involved conflicting currents within the party, one of the few possibilities which seems to have been…